Parisoma Innovation Loft

Lets Kick off 2009 right!

The agenda for the January SFDUG meeting will be a Web Site Case Study and Themes.

The case study we will be looking at this month will be:

Industry Standard Web site roll out using Drupal.

Presented by: Baldwin Louie the Director, Technology.

This will be a great peek into what it takes to roll out a large high traffic web site.

Themes Presentation:

Jason from MagicSpark will be doing his presenation on the zen theme and how to setup and configure it.

This will be a great presentation for those of us who are wondering how to use the Zen theme and who have theme development questions in general.

Jason will be making the same presentation at Druplacon in Washington – so if you are not making it to Washington this is a chance to get a really quality presentation from a very knowledgeable Drupal community member.

We will have beer, if anyone would like to bring anything else feel free.

If you have anything theme related which you would like to present please let me know and I will get add you to the list of presenters.

RSVP here on Upcoming!

Thanks so much to Gabe and Amy for coming to PariSoMa to talk about SonicLiving and their recent partnership with Pandora. Check back soon for video of the event.

Techcrunch.fr posted this article about Urbanmobs, a project faberNovel created with Orange, France’s largest cell phone provider. Urbanmobs creates visualizations of cell phone activity throughout Europe. The video below shows a surge of text messages in Southwest Paris during a Tokio Hotel concert on World Music Day.

These visualizations will be exibited at Le Grand Palais through the end of December. For more information and videos, please see the Urbanmobs site.

Amy Miller at SonicLiving was kind enough to make this awesome playlist for Musi2k tomorrow. Scott Walker AND Christmas Rappin’ by Kurtis Blow!!

Come by between 6-8 to hear CEO Gabe Benveniste talk about the partnership they just launched with Pandora Radio. You can RSVP here.

We held the last SFDUG meeting of the year at Parisoma on the 8th.   I am making an effort to really galvanize the San Francisco / Bay Area  Drupal community and get as many people as possible to come to the meetings.  If you are reading this and you have an interest in Drupal or you are a Drupal expert come to our next user group meeting.

You can RSVP  to the upcoming meetings and read about what the topic will be here:  http://www.meetup.com/SFDUG-San-Francisco-Drupal-Users-group/

For the last meetup of 2008 we did lightning talks giving anyone an opportunity to talk about Drupal.   We had a really great turn out.

We talked about Acquia, Drupal testing, Ubercart and we got to know who was who in the group.   We are lucky to be in an area where there is a lot of Drupal talent.

I want thank everyone who came last night and I hope to see you all next month January 12 2009 for the first meetig of the year.

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Jim Hollingsworth gave a fascinating talk on what Gracenote does and what innovative things they are working on for the future.

Don’t forget to RVSP for this month’s Musi2k with Gabe Benveniste of SonicLiving!

Linux news site Lxer.com posted this article about Openmoko, Inc. adding us to their growing list of distributors.

Please visit the official Openmoko site for more information about the world’s first Open Source phone. Our Openmoko web shop can be found here.

TechCrunch wrote a post praising our presentation “Everything you always wanted to know about Google but were afraid to ask.”

The slides provide a great overview of Google’s basic strategy and its core successes, along with predictions about the giant’s future, from a French perspective. Here’s the presentation:

All about Google

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: google business)

Thanks again to Jim for speaking at November’s Musi2k. Check back soon for a video of the event.

Hello All,

We are excited to announce that Gabe Benveniste of SonicLiving will be the featured speaker at our next Musi2k, on December 18.

A little about SonicLiving:

“SonicLiving was founded in 2006 by former Pixar employee, Gabe Benveniste. SonicLiving is a concert tracking tool and social network that syncs with iTunes, Pandora, and Last.fm to find local concerts based on a user’s personal taste, anywhere in the U.S, with plans to go abroad in the near future. The Bay Area start-up has long been the only service of its kind to integrate with Pandora. The new Pandora concerts feature is powered by SonicLiving’s API (http://sonicliving.com/about/api), which is now available for both commercial and non-commercial use. The company is currently bootstrapped and seeking its first round of funding. For more information about the SonicLiving API, press, or general inquiries, contact press@sonicliving.com <mailto:press@sonicliving.com>. SonicLiving is headquartered in Emeryville and on the web at www.sonicliving.com <http://www.sonicliving.com/>

Please rsvp at our post on Upcoming. See you there!